For six years, comedian George Lopez was co-creator, writer, producer and star of his own self-titled ABC-TV sitcom, the only show ever named after a Latino to have a successful run on network television. In the seven years since it was canceled,...

"Justified" may have wrapped its run earlier this year, but the FX crime drama about a maverick lawman (Timothy Olyphant) just got a nice send-off from the Critics' Choice Television Awards.
"Justified" and HBO's miniseries...

Feature film production activity in Los Angeles County plummeted 15% in the first quarter of this year, continuing a slide in a sector that has been squeezed by runaway production.
Los Angeles generated 926 shoot days in the first quarter, down from...

"The Grand Budapest Hotel," "Interstellar" and "Birdman" are among the feature film nominees for the 19th Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards.
The theatrical film nominations announced Monday are...

For those of us grown weary of the tortured white male detectives/criminals who occupy so much prime television real estate, "Those Who Kill," which premieres Monday on A&E, offers some small comfort. Not only is the tortured detective...

Sony Corp. is getting into a new facet of the TV business: launching an Internet service that will bring live television programs and on-demand content into the home.
Andrew House, chief executive of the Sony Computer Entertainment Group, unveiled...

Good morning, and happy Juan-uary to you all!
That's right, my friends, Juan-uary: ABC has deemed this first month of the year be devoted to our Venezuelan former pro-soccer-playing new Bachelor, Juan Pablo Galavis.
If you didn’t watch Desiree’s...

Frank Darabont, creator of "The Walking Dead" television series, and Creative Artists Agency are suing AMC Networks Inc. over profit from the hit cable show.
Darabont, who developed the series with CAA and delivered it to AMC in 2010 and was...

Since winning the Emmy for playing shot-calling criminal matriarch Mags Bennett on "Justified," Margo Martindale has been doing impressive work across the spectrum. TV critics have singled out her performance opposite Will Arnett and Beau...

Margo Martindale leans conspiratorially toward Beau Bridges on a love seat in an sparse second-story lounge at CBS Studios in the San Fernando Valley.
"Where are you in 'Masters of Sex'?" she asks.
Bridges' jaw drops, and his trademark bushy...

At first glance, it may seem odd that "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush would executive produce a documentary about rhino poaching in Nepal. After all, the television personality is best known for reporting on celebrities. Also, he's admittedly...

Going into Sunday's Emmy telecast, all eyes are on "Breaking Bad." It's picked up a slew of acting awards during its five-season run and is this year's odds-on favorite for drama series; as the show moves toward its Sept. 29 finale, its...

Aziz Ansari wants to bring the Beltway to Pawnee in a scandalous way.
The “Parks and Recreation” funnyman has gotten drunk off the “Scandal” Kool-Aid — binging on the buzzy ABC drama during a break from production — and he can’t stop talking about it ......

Elmore Leonard, the highly popular and well-regarded crime novelist who died Tuesday at age 87, also left his mark on television. Compared with his books and the movies that continue to be wrought from them, it’s the smallest of the marks he made: Two...

I never wanted to be Raymond Chandler. I wanted to be Philip Marlowe. I never wanted to be Ross Macdonald. I wanted to be Lew Archer. Elmore Leonard was the only author I ever wanted to be. Leonard outsized his characters with his easy charm, sardonic...

Hollywood always loved Elmore Leonard. The prolific novelist-screenwriter, who died Tuesday at age 87, didn't always return the affection.
Over the course of Leonard's six-decade do-si-do with the entertainment industry, his plain-spoken prose provided...

Elmore Leonard populated his novels with con men, hustlers and killers, with names like Chili, Stick and Ordell. He plunged readers into a sea of urban sleaze, spiking his tales with mordant humor and moral ambivalence.In stories often set in Detroit or...

Elmore Leonard, like many writers, fashioned a method of self-preservation when it came to dealing with Hollywood. When he sold his novels — and he sold many — he cashed the paycheck and then let them go.
But with the FX drama "Justified,"...